07/10/1928 Board of Public Works Minutes

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Tuesday, July loth., i928. s 0 0 0 • • in route of said Sub -Trunk Sewer as suggester, .will insure a better sewer and will serve said dub -Trunk District fully as well as that ' originally planned and at an enormous saving in cost to said District. Now therefore, be it resolved that the course of said Sub -Trunk Sewer Number 3 be and the same is hereby now ordered discontinued in its course easterly from said Dundee Street and be ordered constructed &long the following line to -wit: "Beginning at a manhole in the center lineof Kenmore Street and the center line of Washing Street; thence East along the center line of Washington StreetT thirteen hundred and twenty-eight (feet (I3281). with a twenty-four inch (24") circular sewer; thence still east along the center line of Washington Street Three Hundred and Twenty-seven feet (3271) to the center line of Dundee Street *ith an eighteen inch (I811) circular sewer; thence South along the denter line of Dundee Street Five Hundred and Fifty four feet (554`f) with an eighteen inch (1811) circular sewer to the center line of Jefferson Street; thence East Six Hundred and Twenty- eight feet (6281) along the center line of Jefferson Street with an eighteen .inch ( I8") circular sewer to the center line of Liberty Street." Together with the necessary manholes, store water inlets, conduits and house connections to the curb line a ong the line of said Mprotement and to be built in accordance with the specifications, detail plans, maps and estimates now on file- in the office of the Department of Public Works of said city, which include an estimate of the yroportion of the cost of an adequate local sewer built along the above line, hears to the cost of a mlin sewer to be built as follows: The cost of an adequate local sewer, built along the line above described, is hereby estimated and fixed to be eight (8%) per cent of the cost' of the main sewer to be built along said line as above set forth, which proportion, as herein estimated and fixed, shall be taken and adopted in all computations requiring a knowledge of the cost of such local sewer if built along the line where the main sewer is to be built. The cost of the construction of said sewer shall be divided as follows. (I). So much of such cost as shall be equivalent to the construction of an adequate local sewer not adapted to receive sewage from collateral drains or sewers, if built along the proposed lines as hereinbefore set forth, shall be paid for by abutting property holders and by the City of South Bend, if it be determined that the said city is benefited by the said sewer, in the same manner and to the same extent as local sewers are paid for by them, under the statute to such cases made and provided. (2). The excess cost, over and above what would be equivalent to the cost of a local sewer, if built along said line, shall be assessed against each piece of property in the district or area to be drained, and against the city, if it be determined that the said city is benefited by the said sewer, according to the manner and method prescribed by law; all of which said property beneficially affected lies within the following described territory in the city of South Bend, St. Joseph County, State of Indiana, to -wit: Beginning at the intersection of the center line of Kenmore Street jl and the north line of Washington Street; thence east along the north line of Washington;) Street to the center line of the first alley east of .Kenmore -Street; thence north along' the center line of the first alley east of Kenmore Street and said center line produced to the southerly line of the right-of-way of the New York Central Railraod; thence southeasterly along the southerly line of said right-of-way to the north and south center line of the west one half (I) of Section I0, Township 37' North, Ra e 2 East; jl thence south along the north and south center line of the west one half ( of said Section I0 to the center line of the first alley north of Division Street; thence west along the center line of the first alley north of Division Street to the center line of the first alley east of Kenmore Street; thence nort: along the center line i of the first alley east of Kenmore Street to the south line of Washington Street; j thence west along the south line of fashington Street to thecenter line of Kenmore Street; thence north along the center line of Kenmore Street to .the place of beginning. 1i And each -piece of property is said district or area above described, including abutting property holders and the city of South Bend, if it be determined that said city is benefited, shall be assessed, .as aforesaid, to pay said excess of , cost over and above what would be equivalent to the cost of a local sewer; all of which�l will more fully appear by reference to the profile, mar, drawings .and specifications now on files in the .office of the department of Public !!forks of said city, which I� among other things, give the exact course of said proposed main sewer:; overflows, and its appurtenances, and the district or area which may be _injuriously or benefically�� affected thereby, as shown by heavy boundary lines mar'ced on said map and drawings, which proper words and figures written thereon, clearly indicating what said heavy boundary lines represent, and the district or area a braced thereby.. .Assessments, if deferred, are to. be raid in ten dqual annual installments, with interest at the rate of six_ Der cent per annum. A bond or bonds shall be issued to the contractor in payment for said work, unless the property owners pay said assessments before said bond or bonds are issued. tinder no circumstances shall the city of South Bend be or be held responsible for any sum or sums due from said proprty owner.or comers for said work, or for the collection of the same, or f'or, t-he .payment - of any bond, bonds, certificate or certificates, issued to said contractor in payment for such work, except for such moneys as shall have been actually, received by said city from the assessments for such improvement..